On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
However, with folders that exceed 20,000 messages in some cases, using a standard IMAP client can be tiresome.
I'm wondering if anyone out there has utilized something like htdig to create better indices and searches on these folders. Either in mbox or Maildir format?
There simply has to be a better way......
You could perhaps kludge something together for this purpose, but I am not aware of any elegant way to use ht://Dig for searching mail folders. The functionality provided by the package is very much focused on web content. Also, the indexing is done at the file level, so indexing mbox files would probably be pointless; at best a search would tell you that a search term was somewhere in that mailbox. There are some tricks that you can use to index text files straight from disk, so Maildir might provide some possibilities. But even if you get the info into the index, you would still be limited on the search side. You would either need to perform your searches in a web browser or somehow wrap htsearch and do your own parsing and presentation.
In short, while you might very well be able to cobble something together, I don't think ht://Dig is a particularly good match.
Jim
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